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The Alhambra is not only Granada and Andalusia's biggest tourist attraction, it's one of the most-visited spots in all of Spain. It draws more than 2.5 million visitors per year, with some ...

Exploring the country’s Arab influence is an impossibly romantic journey, involving palaces with intricate geometric designs, castles and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals.

Granada's Alhambra palace is overlooked by the Sierra Nevada Mountains. (Bob Sessions) Buy Photo Thankfully, the mosque’s exquisite architecture and ornamentation were left largely intact.

Neither the Alhambra nor the Sagrada Familia: foreign tourist’s favorite monument in Spain. ... the Mosque-Cathedral earned a stellar 86.3% five-star rating from international visitors, ...

From roughly 711 to 1492, the Moors, or North African Muslims, controlled parts — sometimes large parts — of Spain. The mosques and fortresses that remain are some of the country's most ...

MADRID (dpa) - Spain's 15th-century Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella would not have believed their eyes. Five centuries after the last of the ...

Seven magical things you’ll discover at Spain’s astonishing Alhambra. By Brian Johnston. March 19, 2024 — 5.00am. ... and the Parador de Granada is lodged in a former mosque complex, ...